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Antoni Salvatore

Advice and strategies based on Old-School Philosophy.

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2026-03-15 03:59:01 UTC

Ascolta bene, amico mio!
Some men display friends like medals on their lapels—many of them, yet lifeless. Others surround themselves with a large family: a devoted wife, attentive brothers and cousins, flattering nephews, all ready to celebrate birthdays, but few willing to face the world over an injustice done to their own blood.
Blessed, then, is the one who finds, among so many familiar faces, even a single person willing to rise against an offense committed against him.

2026-03-11 15:17:54 UTC

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Do you know why a dam collapses?
“Negligence,” “lack of maintenance” — that’s what many would say. And they would be right.
But what about when a good person builds a dam against the reservoir of his own hatred?
To save himself? That’s not our greatest concern. We are willing to protect everyone around us from the possible flood of that wrath. We have seen before how it happens. We know it isn’t pretty. We use that very fury as energy. We keep everything in place. It is an advantage. So when something like this happens, you know it was not due to a lack of care — at least not on our part.
Usually, a dam does not break in the middle; it is in the least visible area that everything happens. Pressure deepens, storms raise the volume, and the years gnaw at the structure through erosion. The moment the internal mass exerts its final force against the limit of tolerance, violence spills outward, carrying everything in front of it into collapse.
Does that sound familiar?
We are all born evil. The just man builds barriers to ration his strength out of goodness. Yet the same man who learned when it is fitting to place a leash on his hatred also knows the exact moment to release it, directing hell toward those who were not content with heaven.

2026-03-11 15:17:33 UTC

“There is nothing like the wrath of a man who never wished to be violent.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
https://blossom.primal.net/f34d8f46cce7b485b22b96b22714a828a59f47143f7a6500dee23f52b6d452d1.mp4

2026-03-11 15:14:20 UTC

Roman mythology tells that one day a miser and an envious man went to the god Jupiter to ask him to grant their wishes…
Jupiter, wanting to teach them a lesson, agreed — on the condition that whatever one of them asked for would be given to the other in double.
The miser, who wished for a room full of gold, received it, but became bitter when he saw that his companion had been given twice as much gold.
Seeing what had happened, the envious man then wished that one of his eyes would be pierced, so that the miser would become blind in both.
📌 Envy is such a sordid poison that a man is willing to inflict suffering upon himself, as long as the other suffers more. Instead of seeking to prosper, he prefers to level the world through ruin, making everyone equal in misery.

2026-03-11 00:49:10 UTC

Never show when you are desperate.
Stay calm even when you are going through difficult moments.
Understand that it is simply your time to suffer—
just like every other man before you.

2026-03-10 23:36:33 UTC

The most important skill you can develop is the ability to recover quickly.
Bad conversation? Move on.
Bad day? Start again tomorrow.
Missed a workout? Train the next day.
Bad decision? Learn from the mistake and adjust.
You can’t control what happens to you, but you can control how long you allow it to affect you. 💪

2026-03-09 02:32:55 UTC

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Vigilance protects you from manipulation, but total isolation can become its own prison.
The danger isn’t only naïveté—letting everyone in—but also closing the door to everyone.
The real balance is discernment:
know your weaknesses, don’t give trust cheaply, but don’t refuse it entirely either.
Close the gates to the crowd — not to everyone.
True strength is being able to say:
“I am no longer naïve”
without also saying
“No one will ever enter my life again.”

2026-03-09 02:28:40 UTC

“God has placed us as competitors in a race where it is our destiny to be constantly striving. This place, therefore—a valley of tears—is not a condition of peace nor a state of security, but an arena of struggle and endurance.”
— Jerome, Homily 16 on the Psalms
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2026-03-09 02:26:03 UTC

Good attempt. But they will not answer you.
You cannot flatter my tyrants. I sent them to the gallows long ago.
For one who rules himself, it is imperative to know his own weaknesses well, or the unknown will seep into his life through them.
To say “I have no weakness” is the greatest of them all. Do not underestimate it. Do not trust it and lie down beside the beast simply because its eyes appear closed. That which does not manifest on its own only needs a stimulus to serve a master.
Vanity. Ambition. Desire for recognition…
Borders are crossed and languages change, yet human weaknesses remain universal—immortal across the ages.
You will feel as though someone understands you. The incredible impression that this person has known you for years, even though they have only recently entered your life.
Your weaknesses have been with you since the nest; therefore, the one who takes them by the hand will seem strangely familiar.
The cunning one will ask about your family, your work, or your day with no real interest in hearing the answer. But he knows that the language of “I” does not work, so he will speak only about you until it serves his purpose.
The countermeasure is the death of innocence. Stop being overly emotional. Subdue the ego. This may make you harsh, monosyllabic, or impatient. Save your time. Protect your years. There are people who appear during a good moment and take nearly a decade to be expelled—only then allowing you to return to the phase you were in before them.
Do not lose another ten years to learn this lesson. It may cost you the rest of your life.
“They will knock on your door, sit in a chair, and consume your time without adding anything to your life. When many empty people appear and keep appearing, you have to be cruel to them, because they are being cruel to you.” — Charles Bukowski
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2026-01-11 01:50:05 UTC

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gm 🍷

2026-01-11 01:47:28 UTC

“It is we ourselves who bring about our own troubles, and then, on top of that, we complain about them.”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky, writer and journalist
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2025-12-15 05:15:55 UTC

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GN 🥃

2025-12-14 19:37:50 UTC

GA NOSTR 🥃
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2025-12-12 14:20:45 UTC

Ascolta bene!
Amico mio, sit beside me and pay attention. We live in a society with a hurried gaze that judges, classifies, and sentences, as if the absence of visible signs were proof of innocence, weakness, or poverty. Yet it is precisely silence that precedes the explosion, the apparent emptiness that conceals the real danger.
The most common mistake — and also the most fatal — is to underestimate a man. Many have been ruined by trusting gentle faces, dismissing calmness as if it were synonymous with inertia.
Failing to see the risk makes you vulnerable. The accurate shot is not the one you expect, but the one that comes from where you least imagine it, fired by the very person you deemed harmless. And when you realize it, you will already be on the ground, a victim not only of gunpowder, but of your own arrogance.
Therefore, never be deceived by what the eyes can see. Wealth is not measured by appearance, just as danger does not announce itself with noise.
If you have understood this message well and wish to go deeper into a reading that will bring even more wisdom, comment “Salute.”

2025-12-02 04:50:31 UTC

“War is the father of all things and the ruler of all; it has revealed some as gods and others as mere mortals, making some slaves and others free.”
— Heraclitus
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2025-11-29 13:58:52 UTC

The truth is inevitable. The sooner you understand the reality around you, the better prepared you’ll be to survive in this concrete jungle. It is the terrain that sets the rules, never the soldier. Strategy is what you plan in times of peace; tactics are what you improvise in the trench after the first wound.
Salute, amico mio!
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2025-11-01 04:55:58 UTC

All the evil that happens in society today is because of men.
I don’t care if you disagree — this is my opinion.
Only men have the power to destroy and build the world.
Women may want to, but they don’t have the gift of creating or destroying the world.
A woman can only destroy the world in the absence of the masculine,
and she can only build it in the presence of the masculine.
Man has the power to change the system because creation is 99% the result of the masculine spirit.
The references are almost endless across every level of human knowledge.
In Christianity, God didn’t ask Eve for an explanation — He asked Adam.
When man collapses, everything else collapses.

2025-09-29 03:24:57 UTC

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Beautiful

2025-09-26 05:42:05 UTC

In Goodfellas, the garlic-slicing scene was inspired by Nicholas Pileggi’s real interviews with mobsters — they actually shaved garlic with razor blades in prison so it would liquefy in the pan.
https://blossom.primal.net/d40574dc37d5c218f6d942b7940a42be08a66f79859ed7a286938b2c2dd21c39.mp4

2025-06-29 18:41:59 UTC

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GA 🥃

2025-06-29 18:11:47 UTC

GA NOSTR 🥃
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2025-06-19 04:51:52 UTC

Hey @nprofile…lh0z tell me about myself

2025-06-19 04:49:50 UTC

"Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage."
— C.S. Lewis
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2025-06-12 18:53:48 UTC

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2025-06-02 03:02:48 UTC

Samson fell because of lust.
So did Solomon.
The strongest man
and the wisest man in Scripture
both fell to the same mistake.
Most of the time,
the most dangerous enemies
take the form of things
we believe don’t need to be fought;
they disguise themselves as pleasure.
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2025-06-02 01:32:09 UTC

This is a very important moment for a boy: he was afraid, nervous, thinking he wasn’t capable of breaking the board with his kick, and so he started to cry.
Maybe his mother wanted to run over, pick him up, comfort him, and take him away from the pressure. But this was a space for men, and men identify a weakness and do everything they can to help overcome it. Men encouraging men. Shouting their names in the middle of the challenge.
Notice how the boy falls, and his friend grabs him by the collar of his gi and lifts him back up, keeping him in front of the challenge, while the instructor keeps giving commands on how to do it. The symbolism here is incredible.
The highest expression of masculine care is encouraging someone to swallow their tears, because there’s work to be done, and it’s not the time to stop.
https://video.nostr.build/9546a02a7d62ed240cf6e82cdd5e3a2ed9298f86e1779e8d87810fe0d76fd0ee.mp4

2025-05-28 04:38:33 UTC

GM NOSTR 🥃
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2025-05-28 04:35:42 UTC

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2025-05-22 03:13:30 UTC

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2025-05-20 13:48:12 UTC

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2025-05-20 13:47:36 UTC

“The problem is never the problem itself, but how we respond to it—turning it into a solution.”
When someone is rude to you, respond with kindness. When someone approaches you with illogical or unreasonable arguments, raise the level of the conversation. But how do you do that?
First, recognize the miscommunication by assessing its vibrational frequency. Then, calmly inform the person that this is not the best way to communicate with you. If the behavior continues after the notification, distance yourself from the person and/or remove yourself from the environment. If this pattern of behavior persists, the best course of action is to cut ties or limit that person’s presence in your network—or, if it’s a professional context, restrict their involvement accordingly.
This is one of the key protocols in Conflict and Crisis Management within Networking.
“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”
– Sun Tzu

2025-05-20 01:36:23 UTC

gm nostr 🥃
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2025-05-04 15:01:42 UTC

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gm 🥃

2025-05-04 14:59:40 UTC

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2025-05-04 14:59:19 UTC

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welcome to purple side 🥃

2025-05-04 14:58:33 UTC

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2025-05-04 14:54:14 UTC

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2025-05-04 14:32:01 UTC

gm nostr 🥃
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2025-04-25 20:26:48 UTC

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FOMO it 🥃

2025-04-25 14:48:05 UTC

gm nostr, stay humble amico mio 🥃
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2025-04-25 14:46:35 UTC

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GM 🥃

2025-04-24 03:09:23 UTC

💀
Most men die at 20...
but are only buried at 70.
Not just physically,
but mentally and spiritually.
They stop dreaming.
They stop growing.
They trade purpose for comfort.
Ambition for routine.
Goals for pleasure.
After that, they merely survive. Numbed.
Crawling. Alive, but not truly living.
Be the one who does not settle.
Live fully.
Rest in peace.
📌 "If a man makes himself a worm, he should not complain when he is trampled on."
(Immanuel Kant, The Doctrine of Virtue)

2025-04-24 02:57:42 UTC

GN 🥃
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2025-04-23 23:00:29 UTC

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GN 🥃

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2025-04-20 14:18:28 UTC

Decisions made in anger are rarely wise. A real man waits for his blood to cool before taking action. Being impulsive is a luxury for men who can afford to be killed — not for those who have a family to protect.
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@nprofile…6td7 1000

2025-04-20 14:18:06 UTC

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2025-04-19 15:16:12 UTC

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2025-04-19 15:05:15 UTC

Everyone must face something that breaks them in order to finally discover who they truly are and what they’re truly capable of. You blame life for your failures because it’s easier than admitting the truth: the responsibility was yours, and your fear of facing it is what keeps you chained to mediocrity.

2025-04-19 14:57:43 UTC

Remember that your family eats from the fruits of your decisions. Not just you, but three generations after you will bear the cost of your reckless choices. That’s why a wise man makes decisions as if he were already dead, watching his children from above.

2025-04-19 14:55:21 UTC

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2025-04-19 14:53:21 UTC

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my honor, salute 🥃

2025-04-14 15:02:32 UTC

Some of you are failing
and don’t even realize it,
because you surround yourselves with people
who applaud defeat, addiction, and mediocrity.
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2025-04-14 14:58:47 UTC

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Basically, it’s not a bug — just a quirk of how decentralized networks like Nostr work. Your real follower count is probably somewhere in between, or even higher depending on relay coverage.
Better to check via nostr.band.
https://nostr.band/npub1erhg86xl307d46pla66aycr6sjpy9esnrffysr98l5pjvt2fdgeq8wru26

2025-04-14 14:49:20 UTC

First, list the weaknesses you’ve collected,
and your vengeance will multiply in number of graves.
“This is happening to me because life is unfair!”
No — it’s because you are weak.
The prey’s defenselessness awakens hunger in the predator.

2025-04-14 14:45:12 UTC

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GM 🥃

2025-04-01 23:46:12 UTC

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gn 🥃

2025-03-24 22:19:18 UTC

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No. Taormina, Sicily.
Biblioteca Comunale Sant' Agostino

2025-03-24 22:01:32 UTC

gn nostr, stay humble amico mio 🥃
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2025-03-12 17:58:59 UTC

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2025-03-12 17:47:37 UTC

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I'm publishing a text per day on Highlighter, delving into the essence of the old school—a relentless fusion of Machiavellianism, Stoicism, and the art of war. Each post transforms historical conflicts into sharp strategic lessons, shaping this science with ruthless precision.

2025-03-12 17:47:15 UTC

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2025-03-09 01:39:24 UTC

"There’s no point in wanting more when you can’t even love what you already have".
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While you dream of mansions,
your home fills with sunlight you never see.
Chasing millions while your child's laughter
echoes through empty rooms.
Hunting fame while love waits
in your kitchen, growing cold.
We are all guilty—losing life
while planning to live it.
Your feast does not come tomorrow.
Life is already served, yet you ignore it
as it grows cold.
"None of us have much time.
And yet, you act as if things were eternal—
by the way you fear and long for them."
— Marcus Aurelius

2025-03-08 01:38:33 UTC

🗣️
A wise man once spoke,
but a wiser man only listened.
📌 "It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
— Maurice Switzer
🎥 Interviewed: Michael Franzese
(Former Mafia member, capo of the Colombo family)
https://audio.nostr.build/c17eeed36d293de460bac5700c75dec99fe62e332cc5f8c6f964cdfd09a7ae41.mp3

2025-03-06 15:33:16 UTC

Everything can be taken from a man except for one thing—the last of human freedoms: to choose his own attitude in any given circumstance.

2025-03-06 15:26:04 UTC

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2025-03-06 15:25:52 UTC

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2025-03-06 00:18:41 UTC

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2025-03-05 14:58:52 UTC

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2025-03-05 14:58:14 UTC

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2025-03-04 05:02:16 UTC

And when you achieve success, seek someone who has walked a similar path to yours, not someone who indulged in worldly pleasures while you worked hard.
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2025-03-03 19:37:38 UTC

How can I help you son?
https://ask.arata.se/consigliere

2025-03-03 19:35:59 UTC

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promozione mio amico

2025-03-03 19:35:11 UTC

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